Sentences with phrase «science fiction stories»

Like so many great science fiction stories, it's a warning about a possible future, about how if present cultural trends are extended in a certain direction, they could morph into something more ominous.

Like so many lousy science fiction stories, though, it's also about how the world might go wrong if people were cartoonish, one - dimensional imbeciles.

PhilC said: «The resulting science fiction stories have no place in a presentation about what may happen to the climate in the future.

The resulting science fiction stories have no place in a presentation about what may happen to the climate in the future.

Scientists need funding, and the easiest way to obtain it is to make up science fiction stories which scare people.

[Among my favorite unwritten science fiction stories: we aren't smart enough to stop producing ever more complicated persistent molecules; the background level goes up and up.

# 82 Hank, «One of my favorite unwritten science fiction stories describes how our alien overlords encouraged coal mining to eliminate interesting fossil strata.»

One of my favorite unwritten science fiction stories describes how our alien overlords encouraged coal mining to eliminate interesting fossil strata.

This image of cannibal rats forming a colony evokes science fiction stories in which isolated communities generate societies indifferent...

She wrote «terrible» science fiction stories («in gel - pen!»)

Throughout the 5 minute video these creators and enthusiasts discuss the origins of VR and how it's evolved from the science fiction stories it used to be confined to into a very tangible piece of technology.

«Steampunk» is a trendy fiction genre that a lot of my friends love, a kind of reaction to our technology - saturated times (and the popularity of edgy «cyberpunk» science fiction stories.)

: The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories (CreateSpace 978 - 1976168987, $ 15.99, 222pp, trade paperback, September 2017) • Nominal Publication Date: Wed 6 Sep 2017 • Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: B075MGLBL1 • Audiobook ISBN [link to Amazon]: 978 - 1884612688

The collection contains seven science fiction stories from five authors, focusing entirely on stories set in the Bio-Tech Era, a plausible near - future where humanity becomes even more dependent on technology.

It's a collection of longer - than - short science fiction stories (does that make sense?)

Her fascination with science fiction stories and anything supernatural, as well as a keen interest in the Middle Ages, drew her to fantasy.

I am honored to announce that Gardner Dozois chose my novella «Inhuman Garbage» as one of the best science fiction stories of the year.

Most people don't write well, or hate to write or are just to busy and / or distracted to take the time to write business letters, instruction manuals, a truly good novel, copy that gets results, news stories fake or otherwise, tech manuals, spec sheets, non-fiction books on any subject, erotica, science fiction stories and books, science article, magazine articles and blog posts by the millions.

Details: A free contest for science fiction stories of between 1,000 and 6,000 words, supported by the publishers of Interzone, the UK's leading science fiction magazine.

For hard SF, there's LAUNCH PAD, an anthology of science fiction stories edited by Jody Lynn Nye and Mike Brotherton.

I'm working on a trilogy of science fiction stories and they began with a short story.

Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Stories Inspired by Microsoft is an anthology of short stories written by some of today's greatest science fiction authors.

There was also a certain number of science fiction stories in shoujo manga at the time.

At the end of science fiction stories, they often show you a very satisfying reward or conclusion.

Inspired by the science fiction stories of Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl Begins takes place in the near future where the elite of Toronto are protected by a force field.

D.A.R.Y.L. is mostly recommended as an adolescent adventure, although it will entertain adults that are interested in 80s science fiction stories that have intriguing possibilities, even if they are never really explored sufficiently before becoming an action pic.

A couple of years ago, Ann and Jeff Vandermeer put out a request for recommendations: they were putting together a survey anthology of short science fiction stories, and it would be a massive project.

They're both produced by J.J. Abrams and directed by up - and - coming filmmakers (as were the original Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane), and all of the films so far have featured strong casts and high - concept science fiction stories.

Science fiction stories in movies and television set on other worlds frequently present views of spectacular arrangements of moons, looming giant planets and multiple suns of -LSB-...]

These finalists will join other award - winning authors, as well as social and physical scientists, as the winners are honored during Science Fiction Stories night.

Virtual reality is still merely a computer dream — or nightmare — made famous by a series of science fiction stories by William Gibson, who deliberately never even tried to explain just what it was.

In science fiction stories with such hybrids, a big part of the plot is the resultant ethical gray area: There are certain standards for animal research, and much stricter standards for human research.

Handheld sensors, often found in science fiction stories as a way of collecting a broad spectrum of data with a single device, are becoming real devices through the continuous miniaturization of technology.

Imagine if — with our free time — we wrote science fiction stories, or gave science - related performances, or made scientific art.

Kaku responds: Negative matter has been featured in many science fiction stories (since it has antigravity properties) and even cartoons.

Therefore almost all science fiction stories were, and continue to be, first drafts simply because of the amount of money involved.

And science fiction stories are not subtle.

Lewis» Space Trilogy, consisting of the books Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength is a very good allagory on Christianity from a more «adult» viewpoint, without the obvious appeal to the young reader, even though they read like science fiction stories.

Burk Sharpless: The philosophy for when we were coming up with this particular science fiction story is that we were very interested in science and research and an experience rooted in realism and authenticity.

Interesting comment from someone supporting a book with the Noah's ark science fiction story and the premise that ALL laws of science / physics / etc.

There is a short science fiction story — the title escapes me — where time - traveling tourists hop back to watch catastrophes as they occur.

Thirty - six minutes is far too much to spend watching someone making excuses for a science fiction story.

I would say that one science fiction story in 200 is a really good story.

A Voyage to the Moon — a satirical account of a space voyage, often cited as the first science fiction story — was written by the real Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649, just 40 years after Galileo's first telescopic observations of the moon.

I've articulated it as a science fiction story, and I don't think anyone else has written that particular story yet, so for me it's new and interesting because it is plausible — and if we enacted it successfully, we could solve some terrible problems we're facing.

He sees the vital ingredient of SF as otherness: «A true science fiction story has as its keystone an imaginative element which can not be properly expounded in any other literary form.»

Nature presented this illustrated science fiction story as part of its Science Fiction Special.This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on September 20, 2016.

Nature presented this illustrated science fiction story as part of its Science Fiction Special.

As it happened, I'd written a science fiction story that seemed like it might fit — it was about a couple of researchers working in a dusty lab who stumble upon a universal cure for cancer (you remember I said science fiction, right?)

Miniature protective bubbles and tiny sugar - seeking spheres both sound like something out of a science fiction story.